Corporate campaigns: The perversion of the regulatory process

Regulatory agencies play a major role in union comprehensive corporate campaigns. The willingness of these agencies to adopt the union-assistance role is sometimes motivated by bias, often by ignorance of the union's true purpose, and sometimes by the legislation involved. Even when the last is the case, there is little excuse for some regulatory action in the union behalf. The EPA's role in rushing to the aid of unions when state agencies, after laborious examinations of the issues, found no violations or impediments, calls loudly for congressional action. OSHA's rush to inspect facilities where a labor dispute exists, but where no serious safety or health faults were previously found or complained about, needs to be rethought and revamped.